The museum side of Pokhara
Walking towards the main museum of the International Mountain Museum (IMM), you might get to see unripe coffee berries (if it’s the season of unripe coffee berries) hanging from the...
Issue 154 | September 2014
here’s something for everybody in Pokhara. Whether you are a backpacker who wants to make the most out of the city on a minimal budget, whether you are vacationing with...
Walking towards the main museum of the International Mountain Museum (IMM), you might get to see unripe coffee berries (if it’s the season of unripe coffee berries) hanging from the...
In Pokhara, a tower stands still, looking over the Fewa Lake, making sure any accident on the lake doesn’t go unnoticed. If you take right at Lakeside...
Jane Goodall, a renowned primatologist and an outspoken environmentalist was recently in Nepal spreading her message of hope. She’s 80 and still so inspiring” a young girl...
The capital’s newest museum is an art in itself, maintaining the finest balance between modernity and the travails of preserving antiquity. I have been telling anybody willing...
Journalist Thomas Bell, who writes about Nepal for the Economist and other publications, has written a book on Kathmandu in the same name. Bell, who came to Nepal in...
The traditional craft of the Newar village of Pyangoan, the making of pyaang, is gradually being revived after a threat of extinction. The making of bamboo boxes for measuring grain...
Pokhara plays the perfect host to lovers of the outdoors, adrenaline junkies, sybarites, holiday-makers, and leaves each one feeling it is a place made just for them ...
“ ‘Write about what you know,’ the creative-writing teachers advise, hoping to avoid twenty-five stories about robots in love on Mars. And what could you know better than the inside...